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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

December 2010
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 8 47 671 89 816
Tohoku 0 1 4 38 1699 45 1787
Kanto 0 0 3 29 1050 17 1099
Chubu 0 0 1 20 980 7 1008
Kinki 0 0 0 11 1167 15 1193
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 9 496 6 511
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 8 65 2182 147 2402
Near Japan * 2 26 266 205 67 43 609
Total 2 28 290 424 8312 369 9425

*; Sakhalin, Kurile Is., Korea, Ogasawara Is., Primorskii, Taiwan
Total number of earthquakes felt with a seismic intensity of 1 or greater on the JMA scale: 114
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)